March 28, 2016 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 7.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 7.0 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing featuring support for VoLTE testing. This release allow for both functional and load testing of 3GPP LTE Voice over LTE calls.
September 4, 2015 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 6.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 6.0 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing featuring support for SMS. This release allow for both functional and load testing mobile originated and mobile terminated SMS traffic. Additionally, it supports testing of numerous SMS related error scenarios via built in scripts.
July 3, 2015 - Torrent 7240 WiMAX Test System Version 3.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.0 of the 7240 for WiMAX over the air testing of base stations and mobile stations. This release features various enhancements to the BS-7240, including changes to facilitate out of the box interoperability with various popular WiMAX mobile devices, and support for MIMO STC zones.
June 27, 2015 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.9 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.9 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release allows the 10GE fiber interfaces normally used exclusively for streaming traffic to also be used as normal interfaces while not very significantly effecting streaming performance. So for example GTP-C or S1AP can be carried over the same links as streaming traffic which can be useful for testing LTE network monitoring equipment.
March 3, 2015 - Torrent 7240 WiMAX Test System Version 2.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the 7240 for WiMAX over the air testing of base stations and mobile stations. This release of the system features changes at the firmware, driver, and baseband layer to allow for RF hardware abstraction, and to generally simplify the system's architecture. It features higher performance, and will allow the RF portion of the system to be much more easily changed or enhanced in future releases.
February 23, 2015 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.7 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.4 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release adds internal overload controls to the STS so that excessively high packet rates on the STS data plane can be handled with greater elegance. This is of particular importance in the case when SIP/RTP traffic is being streamed. Additionally this build features Gx/Diameter enhancements along with a switch allowing Diameter to be enabled or disabled at will.
January 19, 2015 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.5 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.4 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release adds support for handover while streaming 10GE line rate traffic - on the subscribers doing the streaming. So for example, mobiles streaming YouTube traffic can be handing over while streaming. This release also supports general periodic handover on all subscribers and features new test cases and scripts for mobility testing. Also included are support for X2 handover, support for new GTPv1 IEs.
January 5, 2015 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.4 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.4 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release features an original SCTP stack, replacing the Linux SCTP stack, bringing greater flexibility and allowing many thousands of ENBs to be emulated.
October 26, 2014 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.3 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.3 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release features a new further enhanced Gi interface between the PGW/GGSN and the NTS that further increases performance by using our field proven TCP/IP and UDP stacks on the NTS. It also features integrated support for multiple primary and secondary contexts, IRAU, PDP context modification, and RADIUS authentication for 3G/GTPv1 mobiles.
September 10, 2014 - Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System Version 7.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 7.0 Torrent 5100 for GGSN testing. This release features numerous framework level enhancements from the 6100 and features streamlined integrated support for multiple primary contexts.
August 20, 2014 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 5.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 5.0 Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. This release which was preceded by a company record thirteen point releases over the span of five months is packed with new features, including S1 handover, extensive IPv6 support throughout the system, including the high-speed 10GE streaming engine. It also features switchable support on the streaming engine for Gi and S5/S8 streaming allowing high speed streaming tests into either the SGW or PGW. This release also includes various tracing enhancements, allowing for example, tracing of otherwise encrypted NAS messages.
March 28, 2014 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 4.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce the availability of version 4.0 of the Torrent 6100 for LTE EPC testing. The central feature of this release is support for S1-MME (S1AP and NAS) with XML based message templates. AES security is supported in this release along with XOR and Milenage authentication.
December 6, 2013 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 3.4 Released
In this release, the Torrent 6100 is enhanced to provide VLAN tagging support for 10GE interfaces. This allows for very high bandwidth user plane traffic streaming over numerous VLANs with configurable control over 802.1q CFI and priorities. This release also helps user's visualize configurations by introducing a network diagram feature, as well as providing tracing enhancements for the high speed 10GE user plane.
September 12, 2013 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 3.2 Released
Evolving the original GTPv1 from the flagship Torrent 5100, this version of the 6100 features combined GTPv1 (3G) support along with GTPv2/LTE support. Additionally it supports a scaling factor for emulated gateways so that EPCs with hundreds of gateways may be defined and tested against.
July 23, 2013 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 3.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is delighted to announce the immediate availability of version 3.0 of our EPC test system for 3GPP LTE. It features scaling to hundreds of gigabits per second of highly realistic traffic at near line rate speeds, and scaling to many millions (even hundreds of millions of) attached subscribers. This release features numerous enhancements and features, including significant new graphing features, test case and scripting capabilities, usability features, as well as an upgrade to Java 7.
May 21, 2013 - Torrent 5100 GTP Test System Version 6.0 Released
Mobile Metrics today announced the immediate availability of a new version of it's flagship Torrent 5100 featuring the new scalable high bandwidth streaming engine released in conjunction with V3.0 of the Torrent 6100. Its feature set matches that of it's LTE counterpart, but it's modified to support testing of GGSNs. Furthermore this release features unprecedented scalability to 7M+ subscribers on a single machine.
April 23, 2013 - Record Subscriber Capacity Achieved
With release 2.1 of the Torrent 6100, the system achieved record density, scaling to 5M+ subscribers on a single machine, in our new standard 2U form factor.
March 19, 2013 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Version 2.0 Released
Mobile Metrics is delighted to announce the immediate availability of a new version of the Torrent 6100 featuring a new, scalable, and very high bandwidth data plane test engine. The new release is capable of generating hundreds of gigabits per second of traffic in a scaled configuration. Moreover, the traffic types that the system uses in these high speed scenarios are highly realistic and extensible, and include popular traffic types such as YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, and Pandora. Physical interfaces supported are SR and LR fiber as well as 10GE over copper.
January 8, 2013 - LTE eNB and UE PHY SFBC 64-QAM Transmission
Mobile Metrics announced today that its eNB emulator and mass UE emulator successfully achieved sync, and transmitted 64-QAM SFBC encoded information in TDD mode. The full Torrent 6240 release which includes these two elements is targeted for 4Q13.
August 26, 2012 - Torrent 7240 WiMAX Test System Released
Mobile Metrics is finally pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Torrent 7240 for WiMAX base station and mobile station testing. With it's ability to load a base station and core network with thousands of mobiles, or to act as a complete WiMAX ecosystem, the 7240 breaks new ground in 4G testing in many ways.
April 17, 2012 - AirScan 650 Captures 20MHz LTE Transmission
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce that the AirScan 650 has sucessfully recorded numerous LTE signaling and data procedures in a live air (lab) setting under 20MHz channelization. Subsequent to these tests, decoding of messages was successfully performed.
February 3, 2012 - AirScan 750 Drive Tests
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce that live air drive tests of the AirScan 750 for WiMAX were successful, and yielded high quality results, even with relatively low gain antennas. The tests were conducted in the Houston area using the 4U AirScan 750, a laptop, and generic power inversion and regulation equipment. Below are two typical WiMAX (DL-PUSC) constellations received during these tests (which also included successful STC MIMO RX tests).
November 25, 2011 - Torrent 6100 LTE Test System Released
Mobile Metrics is very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Torrent 6100 LTE Test System for testing the LTE core network. This initial release focuses on testing Serving Gateways and PDN Gateways, and features many new innovations. We're thrilled that it is able to sustain initial attach rates in excess of 30,000 attaches/per second, and that it can easily support over 1M subscribers on a single machine.
August 20, 2011 - New Airlink Hardware Exceeds Perormance Expectations
Mobile Metrics is delighted to announce it's evolved airlink hardware platform has successfully received full OFDMA frames over live air from the Sprint network, and that the signal quality of the received frames exceeded expectations.
August 15, 2011 - Evolved Airlink Achieves Live Air Synchronization
Mobile Metrics announced today that it's evolved airlink hardware with is both WiMAX and LTE capable achieved synchronization with the Sprint network over live air in Houston. Further tests of both RX and TX capabilities are still under way.
July 31, 2011 - Evolved Airlink Hardware Analog Tests Successful
Mobile Metrics announced today that the evolved airlink hardware platform has exceeded expectations int analog signal loopback tests. Although QAM-64 is the highest rate QAM modulation scheme defined in 802.16e, in analog loopback tests, the system was able to successfully send and receive QAM-256 signals with very high signal quality.
July 19, 2011 - Torrent 7100 Version 5.0 Released
Mobile Metrics today announced the immediate availability of Release 5.0 of the Torrent 7100 featuring numerous new features, including support for emulating 4000+ base stations with O(1) performance, ARP scalability testing facilities, tracing enhancements, extended support for simple IP, a secondary DHCP server, support for mixed MIP/SIP traffic, and more.
May 25, 2011 - Evolved Airlink Hardware Design Completed
Mobile Metrics announced today that it had completed the design of it's evolved airlink hardware platform, and that the boards associated with it were in the manufacturing stages. This hardware platform is capable of supporting both WiMAX and LTE, 802.16m, LTE Advanced, and potentially supporting channel bandwidths in excess of 25MHz. While the original system supported one channel per chassis, requiring two chassis for handover testing, the new system supports two channels on a single chassis, and may support up to four depending on baseband processing requirements.
April 8, 2011 - Torrent 4100 Version 2.3 Released
Mobile Metrics today announced the immediate availability of Release 2.3 of the Torrent 4100 for Mobile IP testing. This release features graphical tracing, configuration import/export capabilities, and various other features inherited from the Torrent 7100.
February 2, 2011 - Airlink Hardware Evolution Plans Invoked
After successfully demonstrating network entry, and preparing to go into production the company learned that the baseband processing board for the airlink hardware was discontinued without notice. Invoking contingency plans for such a possibility, the company accelerated it's already existing hardware evolutions plans.
October 8, 2010 - Torrent 7100 Version 4.8 Released
Mobile Metrics today announced the immediate availability of Release 4.8 of the Torrent 7100 WiMAX Test Systems for ASN Gateways and CSNs. This release features the addition of new turn-key WiMAX test suites covering control procedures including handover, data plane tests, and combinations of both. It also includes tracing enhancements as well as a new integrated DB backup and restore facility.
September 8, 2010 - WiMAX Live Air Network Entry Milestone Achieved
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce today that it has that it has successfully performed a network entry over the air at 2.55GHz. This test was accomplished between the Mobile Metrics mobile emulation system and the Mobile Metrics BS emulation system, both of which are a part of the Torrent 7240 and both of which were running on the Torrent 7240 airlink hardware:
August 9, 2010 - WiMAX MIMO Interoperability Milestone Achieved
After synchronizing to the Sprint 4G Network in Houston, the Torrent 7240 hardware, under development, was successfully able to decode a MIMO STC Matrix A transmission over the air at a distance of 1300m from the tower:
June 21, 2010 - WiMAX Channel Emulation Capability Demonstrated
Having captured live transmissions, the Torrent 7240 was able to analyze and record the characteristics of a real channel and then to apply those characteristics, along with Gaussian noise to pristine signals, resulting in OFDMA signal spectra and constellations which were nearly indistinguishable from ones received live off the air:
June 5, 2010 - WiMAX Synchronization and Decoding IOT Milestone Achieved
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce today that the Torrent 7240 was able to successfully synchronize over live air to the Sprint 4G Network in Houston at at distance of 1300m, and to successfully decode control messages, and do so with zero bit errors.
| May 12, 2010 - Torrent 7100 Wins WiMAX Distinction Award Mobile Metrics is honored to announce that the Torrent 7100 WiMAX Test System has won the Internet Telephony WiMAX Distinction Award for 2010 for exceptional WiMAX solutions.
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April 18, 2010 - Mobile WiMAX Airlink Tests Successful at 10MHz
Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce today that it has that it has successfully sent and received OFDMA frames at 2.5GHz under 10MHz channelization.
March 1, 2010 - Torrent 5100 V 4.6 Released
To allow testing of Diameter billing servers the Torrent 5100 has been augmented to support testing the Diameter protocol. Although the new Diameter implementation in the Torrent 5100 is highly flexible and configurable, the initial release focuses only on Diameter Credit Control.
January 19, 2010 - Mobile WiMAX Airlink Tests Successful at 5MHz
After countless hours of R&D, Mobile Metrics is pleased to announce today that it has successfully sent and received OFDMA frames at 2.5GHz under 5MHz channelization.
December 21, 2009 - Torrent 5100 V 4.5 Released
To allow acceptance testing of Push-to-Talk services at one of the worlds largest operators providing service to over 100M subscribers, the Torrent 5100 was enhanced to support a proprietary version of PoC with enhanced VoIP specific KPIs.
September 30, 2009 - Torrent 5100 V 4.0 Released
To allow testing of charging gateways, Mobile Metrics has augmented the Torrent 5100, with new functionality which allows comprehensive functional and load testing of CGFs. Generation of both G-CDRs as well as S-CDRs is specifically supported as are other CDR types, and CDR fields are highly configurable through an innovative new message configurability framework introduced in this release.
June 8, 2009 - Mobile WiMAX MS and BS Baseband Developed
Having identified limitations in performance and flexibility with 3rd party baseband implementations, Mobile Metrics announced today that it had completed development of a new Mobile WiMAX / 802.16e OFDMA-PHY implementation for both base stations and mobile stations for use on both the Torrent 7240 and AirScan 750, and that these implementations had been successfully tested with both control procedures such as network entry as well as various data plane procedures.
May 7, 2009 - Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System Version 3.0 Released
Our flagship product, the Torrent 5100 was released in 2005, and in our latest 3.0 release, a number of new features have been added in from the Torrent 7000 series, most notably graphical tracing with full protocol support for GTP R99 and R97.
| August 24, 2008 - WiMAX Forum Selects AirScan 750 as Official WiMAX Protocol Monitor Mobile Metrics is honored to announce that the AirScan 750 has been selected by the WiMAX Forum to play an important role in the certification process. Commenting on the selection, Ed Agais, Chairman, Certification Working Group, WiMAX Forum said "The AirScan 750 is a welcome addition to the WiMAX Forum's infrastructure interoperability test bed. Mobile Metrics has demonstrated leadership in helping with the test bed and other interoperability tasks. The AirScan 750 will play a key role in helping ensure compliance with multi-platform WiMAX netowrks." .. |
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August 15, 2008 - Torrent 7100 Version 4.0 Released
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of Version 4.0 of the Torrent 7100 which includes graphical tracing, VLAN tagging, DSCP marking, enhanced service flow support (32DL+32UL), sniffer file import, and more.
April 1, 2008 - Mobile Metrics exhibits at CTIA 2008
At this year's CTIA show in Las Vegas we demonstrated the ground-breaking Torrent 7220 and were honored to co-chaired the Sky Radio Wireless Insider Roundtable with Steve Glagow of Orange / France Telecom, and to give multiple television interviews. Overall, the show was quite a success for us, and we extend our sincere thanks to all of our visitors and the folks in the media who made it turn out that way.
March 31, 2008 - Torrent 7220 Released
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of the Torrent 7220, which provides functional, stress, and performance testing for 802.16e Mobile WiMAX base stations, and which also allows for mobile station testing as it provides a complete end-to-end WiMAX ecosystem. ..
March 31, 2008 - AirScan 750 Announced
Mobile Metrics announced the May availability of the AirScan 750, a protocol analyzer specifically designed to monitor numerous WiMAX interfaces. ..
October 31, 2007 - Torrent 7100 Version 3.0 Released
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of a significant extension to the world's first commercial test system for WiMAXTM ASN Gateways and CSNs, the Torrent 7100 WTS. The 3.0 release of the Torrent 7100 increases its industry-leading capacity and builds upon its reputation as the product most closely aligning with the current WiMAX Forum's NWG specifications. ..
September 26, 2007 - Wireshark Tracing Support
Mobile Metrics announced today that it has updated Wireshark with the capability of tracing WiMAX traffic on the R6, R4 and R3 interfaces. This capability will be generally available in the next Wireshark release (0.99.7), but is also available now in the development stream...
March 27, 2007 - Mobile Metrics is pleased to have participated in CTIA 2007
This year's CTIA trade show was held in Orlando Florida and featured keynote addresses by President George Bush, Sr. and President Bill Clinton. We were very pleased to have played a small part in this event and wish to extend our thanks to all of the folks that stopped by to visit with us.
March 16, 2007 - Torrent 7100 WTS Version 2.0 Release Available
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of a significant extension to the world's first commercial test system for WiMAX ASN Gateways and CSNs, the Torrent 7100 WTS. The 2.0 release of the Torrent 7100 adds Proxy Mobile IP support, update of its Client Mobile IP implementation to the March 2007 NWG specifications, and the ability to test conformance of customer equipment against the new NWG specifications..
March 16, 2007 - Torrent 7200 WTS Version 1.0 Release Available
Mobile Metrics has released the Torrent 7200 for WiMAX Base Station testing system. The 1.0 release of the Torrent 7200 offers the most strenuous application traffic testing of WiMAX Base Stations available, saturating a Base Station with the traffic of thousands of simulated mobiles...
March 16, 2007 - Torrent 4100 XTS Version 1.0 Release Available
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of a new testing system, the Torrent 4100 XTS, which simulates the actions of hundreds of thousands of mobiles entering a WiFi, Mobile IP or other IP network...
September 19, 2006 - Torrent 7100 WiMAX Test System Released
Mobile Metrics announced the immediate availability of the world's first commercial test sytem for WiMAX Gateway and CSNs. The Torrent 7100 features traffic and conformance testing capability for the ASN (Access Service Network) Gateway and the CSN (Connectivity Service Network).
August 15, 2006 - Torrent 5100 GTS Version 2.0 Release Available
Mobile Metrics announced the availability of Release 2.0 of its Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System (GTS). With numerous enhancements and new features, the Torrent 5100 pushes forward the state of the art in wireless traffic testing..
May 1, 2006 - Torrent 7100 WiMAX Test System Announced
We are pleased to announce forthcoming availability of the Torrent 7100 WiMAX Test System, which features the rich test suites and industry-leading capabilities of the Torrent 5100 GTS. This system will focus on testing ASN Gateways, CSN, and Convergence nodes and will be available in 3Q06.
March 29, 2006 - Torrent 5100 GTS Version 1.2 Maintenance Release Available
Version 1.2 of the Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System is now available featuring a new test execution dash board that our users really like, along with a number of general enhancements, and a beta release of the Blackberry™ always-on feature.
January 14, 2006 - Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System Version 2.0 Announced
With a number of new industry leading features the 2.0 release of Torrent 5100 GTS is scheduled for late April of 2006. Some of the new features include support for Blackberry™ always-on support and support for the simulation of other leading brands. The 2.0 release will also feature an extensive set of turn-key tests that allow you to comprehensively test a GGSN with the click of a button and which demonstrate the power and flexibility of Torrent's programmable test case interface.
September 12, 2005 - Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System Version 1.1 Officially Released
Version 1.1 of the Torrent 5100 GGSN Test System is now available with numerous exclusive and industry leading features including full test case and test suite automation and automatic upgrade support. The new release features a full TCP/IP stack built into each mobile with support for HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, MMS, WAP (1.2/2.0), DNS, Ping, and UDP echo built in, as well as support for IP fragmentation, detailed hierarchical statistics, and numerous other features.
March 16, 2005 - Mobile Metrics is pleased to have participated in CTIA 2005
CTIA is the world's biggest wireless trade show and was held in New Orleans for 2005. The response we received was beyond our expectations and we wish to extend our thanks to all of you who stopped by and visited with us. [Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of that region as they recover from the aftermath of both hurricanes Katrina and Rita.]
February 20, 2005 - MTS-5100 performance specs climb even higher
In recent tests on the A1000 hardware platform (pictured below), the MTS-5100 Mobile Traffic Simulator performed at over 40,000 activations per second with bearer at well over 500Mbps.
